Re: [Marxism] Re: Class struggle...

["Callum McCormick" <kingcal78@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Now, now, Callum. Nobody thinks that you favor American troops landing on
> Cuba. I think, however, that the main problem is that no SWP (or ISO)
> troops have ever landed there either. This is a most peculiar situation
> when major documents from these comrades are based entirely on secondary
> literature. It is not as if John Rees or Anthony Arnove would be arrested
> if they set foot in Cuba. In fact, Cuba regularly hosts conferences that
> feature speakers who I am sure have spoken at panels or plenaries with
> Rees, Callinicos, Arnove et al. This includes two comrades from Marxmail,
> Peter McLaren and Michael Lebowitz, who have never spent time in a dungeon
> as far as I know. I would say that there is a certain level of cognitive
> dissonance involved with explaining such a conference's existence and the
> scenario of the Cuban tyrants crushing a Solidarity type movement
> underfoot. On the other hand, it is a fact that Solidarity was far more
> interested in hooking up with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher than it
> ever was with Cuban Marxists.


I wish you were right, but I think you'll find the accusation that 'we'
favor an American landing on Cuba is quite widespread amongst the various
sects - though, maybe not amongst an urbane crowd like this.

As for your criticism of Rees and Callinicos' travelling plans, I don't
know. Maybe they can't afford the flights? I know that a SWP member, Mike
Gonzalez, who recently wrote a book about the Cuban Revolution has visited
Cuba several times - certainly his observations of that place have shaped
some of my own perspectives.

As to your other point, I'm not quite sure that a gaggle of tired left
academics chewing the cud could pose a threat to the Cuban regime, though I
wait to be surprised.

Callum.



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